SPECIAL | Can legislation combat the surge of non-consensual deepfake porn?
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Deepfake videos are spreading rapidly, fueled by sophisticated open-source AI models. MIT researchers reveal that most of these videos are non-consensual porn, targeting celebrities like Taylor Swift. But now even high school and middle school students, predominantly females, are being targeted. UCLA professor John Villasenor joins The Excerpt to parse through the legislative and technological efforts to curb this surge of illicit content. We discuss the challenges of regulating AI-generated images, the importance of international cooperation, and offer practical advice for parents to protect their children from cyber sexual violence.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Wednesday October 30th, 2024 and this is a special episode of the |
| 0:18.8 | excerpt. Deep Fake videos are nothing new. What is new is their pervasiveness. |
| 0:28.9 | Sophisticated open source AI models are now available everywhere and to every one. |
| 0:35.0 | The vast majority of these videos, according to researchers at MIT, are non-consensual porn. |
| 0:41.2 | Big celebrities like Taylor Swift are popular targets, but now, so are high school |
| 0:46.1 | and middle school students, almost all of them female. |
| 0:49.4 | Unfortunately, there's no way to put the AI generated deep fake genie back in the bottle. |
| 0:55.4 | Is there any way to fight this tidal wave of illicit and in many places illegal content? |
| 1:01.8 | Here to help me unpack this complex and quickly evolving story. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm now joined by John V.S. Senior, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy, |
| 1:11.8 | and Management at UCLA. |
| 1:14.0 | John, thanks for joining me on the excerpt. |
| 1:16.0 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's dive right in, starting with how various government entities are attempting to fight the proliferation of AI created |
| 1:24.6 | non-consensual porn. Governor Gavin Newsom of California, where the vast |
| 1:29.7 | majority of AI-focused companies operate, just passed 18 laws to help regulate the use of |
| 1:36.3 | AI with particular focus on AI generated images of sexual child abuse. |
| 1:42.1 | In August, San Francisco's attorney general filed a lawsuit involving |
| 1:45.8 | 16 separate websites, all of which allow users to create their own porn. There's a whole lot of legislation coming out |
| 1:54.4 | to try to address the issue. |
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